Appleseeds articles from January 2002

Appleseeds archives from January 2002

"Low bridge--everybody down!".(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... On canal barges such as Noah's Ark and Try and Catch Me, young crew members called out this warning when the boats came to low bridges. Along the path, boys led mules that towed the barges. On board the boats, girls helped their mothers care...

Childhoods afloat.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... About 30 years ago, historians were able to interview people like William Wentworth about their childhoods on the Erie Canal. When William Wentworth was a little boy, he had a floating home--one of the many boats that worked the Erie Canal....

Measuring the Erie Canal. (Where in the World?).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Today, you can fly from Buffalo, New York, to New York City in about 70 minutes. You can drive it in about 7 hours. But 200 years ago, there wasn't a city where Buffalo is located now. And a trip from the shores of Lake Erie might have taken...

Boats and more boats.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... There was only one way for people or goods to travel on the Erie Canal: by boat. But there were all kinds of boats. Colorful captains steered them. Noisy mules and horses pulled them. Passengers took them east and west. Their cargoes were...

Making boats climb uphill.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Canals work best where the land is flat. There, mules--or later, engines--easily pull the boats along. But the Erie Canal had to cross land that was not flat. This created a problem for the canal engineers. Between the Hudson River and Lake...

All aboard for the Erie Canal!(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... When the Erie Canal opened, tourists from around the world came to see the wonderful new waterway. Here's what you could expect on your floating vacation. Suffering from "canal fever"? WELL, WE HAVE THE CURE FOR YOU! Enjoy a 6- to 10-day...

Kids at work.
January 1, 2002... For almost 100 years, thousands of children worked on the Erie Canal. They cleaned and painted the boats, blew tin horns to let the locktenders know that their boat was coming, and used the bilge pump to pump out water that leaked into the...

Spreading the news with a song.
January 1, 2002... Even before the first line boat left the docks at Albany, Americans began singing songs--and spreading the news--about the Erie Canal. Using songs as "musical newspapers" has always been an American tradition. During the Revolutionary War,...

Low Bridge, Everybody Down. (Your Turn).(write a song)
January 1, 2002... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Now write your own version of a "musical newspaper." Borrow a wide-known melody (such as "I've Been Working on the Railroad") and make up new words about a famous person or important event in your school or town....

The Land of promise! Workers: "meat at every meal and tea twice a day.".
January 1, 2002... Work and food! Just what poverty-stricken families in Europe wanted. Thousands of immigrants, including many Irish, came to America in the 1800s. Immigrants are people who move to a new country, usually in search of a better life. Most...

Montezumas Swamp.(malaria and he construction of the Erie Canal)
January 1, 2002... A stretch of land less than five miles long almost stopped the construction of the Erie Canal. Called Montezumas Swamp, this area west of Syracuse, New York, looked like an easy dig when work began in 1819. The land was soft, black swamp...

American Venice or Salt City?(Syracuse, New York)
January 1, 2002... In the Erie Canal days, people called Syracuse either "American Venice" or "Salt City." Both the Erie and the Oswego canals ran through the town. Streets like canals made it like Venice, an Italian city filled with canals. It was called "Salt...

Canal calculations. (By the Numbers).
January 1, 2002... Imagine that you helped build the Erie Canal. 1. Workers earned 50 cents a day. How much would you earn in a week, if you worked six days? (Don't forget the decimal point in your answer.) 2. You would have worked from 10 to 12 hours a...

Come and get it! (Fun Stuff).(Review)
January 1, 2002... Mealtime on a canal boat was not very different from mealtime in your own home. Canal children had plenty to eat and helped with the shopping and cooking. Stores along the canal sold everything a canal family could need. There were...

Clinton's Ditch and the Big Apple.(DeWitt Clinton, governor)
January 1, 2002... Even before DeWitt Clinton became governor of New York in 1817, he had campaigned to build the Erie Canal. It will be a great thing for our state, he argued. People who disagreed called the canal "Clinton's Ditch." They said that the canal...

The Erie Canal. (Reading Corner).(Poem)
January 1, 2002... The Erie Canal DeWitt Clinton made us start diggin' We'll build the Erie Canal. Some immigrants from Ireland came over to help us. We'll build the Erie Canal. We invented the wheelbarrow and the stump-puller. ...

Branching out.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Erie Canal: Canoeing America's Great Waterway, by Peter Lourie (Boyds Mills Press), invites you to go along for the ride on the author's three-week trip. Then find out how to plan a canoe trip of your own by reading Three Days on a River in a...

My trip to Chittenango Landing Canal Boat Museum: at the Chittenango Landing museum, archeologists are uncovering the past by digging up artifacts and buried structures from the past. (An AppleCorps Adventure).
January 1, 2002... It was a rainy day in May when my classmates and I jumped off the school bus onto the muddy ground of Chittenango Landing Canal Boat Museum in Chittenango, New York. Our guide introduced herself and led us into a big tent with benches along the...

AppleSeeds index 2001.
January 1, 2002... A * Activities are you a healthy eater?, Nov 01, 32-33 crack the code, Mar 01, 30-31 first-aid kit, Mar 01, 24-25 funny food names word find, Nov 01, 29 gourmet popcorn. Nov 01, 27 layering of water, May 01, 17-18 ...